regarding ... Trump Wants to Permit Customized Plans ....
You might try to mock customization options with strawman arguments, but first off ...
If you want a standard ‘cover everything’ policy? Hey, less paperwork. You compare the costs.
Freedom. Short and simple.
And computerizatino will cut the costs of paperwork, especially when we enjoy deregulation.
Secondly ... you don’t think AIDS doesn’t jack up your cost?
And then there’s mental illness coverage. Many forms of mental illness are due to drug abuse. A person could opt for no mental illness coverage in one plan and have another that allows drug testing when somone seeks treatment for mental illness. And certain kinds of mental illness are more expensive than others.
And there’s a long, long list of many ‘junk science’ versions of mental illness, and I bet you pay out the nose for them.
Trump told Hannity that he wants to allow customized health coverage. For example, mental illness.
First off, most new forms of ‘mental illness’ are just junk science. And yet all insurance pays for them.
Secondly, customized mental illness coverage [on the side] could allow drug testing. [Drug abuse triggers most mental illness.] Everyone please note ... a strand of your hair can reveal if you smoked pot in the last seven years!
Technology WILL improve even more in the future.
More freedom is what Trump is about. And deregulation. Yes, it’s pragmatic. But any plan that passes congress will be pragmatic for the next decade or so at least.
I'm sure heart transplants and lung cancer are factored into my coverage as well but I don't expect to need that any more than I'll need AIDS coverage. Insurance policies factor a lot of risks into the price, some relating only to men and some relating only to women. They produce a policy. Not a man's policy, not a woman's policy, but a policy.
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I've actually wondered about that myself. I've had health insurance since before the advent of AIDS and I have noticed a steady rate increase.
I looked it up and found that in 1980 health expenditures per capita were $1,100.00 share of GDP and by 2010 they were $8420.00 share of GDP.
Hope the link works:
http://slidegur.com/doc/218748/national-health-expenditures-per-capita--1960-2010